The first persons to receive theCovid-19 vaccination will be receiving a letter with an appointment to have the Covid-19 vaccine administered, Health Minister Chris Fearne said on a program on the PL’s broadcasting station.

Fearne explained in Paperscan that elderly people over 80 and frontliners will be the first to receive the jab which will be split over two doses.

The letter will explain at which place and time the person will have to take the vaccine and this is being done in order to avoid any chances of crowding in clinics.

The vaccine is expected to be available in Malta in the first weeks of 2021, with over 500,000 jabs in total which are being manufactured by Pfizer. This is enough jabs to cover the whole population of Malta and Gozo, but it is not mandatory to take the vaccine.

Nonetheless, health authorities are urging everyone to get vaccinated.

After elderly people and frontliners receive the vaccine, vulnerable persons and youths are next in line to get it.

Pfizer has previously reported that the vaccine may be 95% effective at preventing Covid-19.

Fearne said that the European Medicines Agency is now running tests to make sure that the vaccine is safe to be administered and these should be done by the end of December unless issues are found which would cause delay.